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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
12:00am – 12:00am
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(Women's Swimming & Diving) Redlands

8:00am – 12:00pm
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Adult CPR/AED and First Aid Recertification

Brown Gymnasium
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Omri Weinstein, Princeton,
11:30am – 1:00pm
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BVS Biotech Research Product Show

Beckman Institute, Glanville Courtyard
12:00pm – 12/31 1:00pm
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Post Office extends hours during the month of December including *Saturdays and *Sundays

Keith Spalding Building
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Baxter B125
Inside Rounds and Venture Capital Returns
Michael Ewens, Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, HSS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System
Konstantin Batygin, Caltech (GPS),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop

Baxter B125
Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition (Joint with Itai Ashlagi and Yash Kanoria)
Jacob Leshno, Assistant Professor Decision, Risk, and Operations, Columbia Business School,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Resources for Climate Models
David Rutledge, Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Engineering, Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Prof. Dennis Kochmann - Teaching a Quantitative Course

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Effective Teaching of a Quantitative Course: From Designing to Teaching the Class
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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TACIT: Student Director Showcase

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
8:00am – 12:00pm
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Adult, Child Infant CPR/AED and First Aid Day 2

Brown Gymnasium, Classroom
8:50am – 11:00am
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International Scholar Orientation

East Bridge 114
11:00am – 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Steele 102
Robotic Materials
Nikolaus Correll, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Replication Stress by Py-Im Polyamides Induces a Non-canonical ATR-dependent Checkpoint Response
Thomas Martinez, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar

Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
The "Would" to Power: Edward Jones's The Known World
Cindy Weinstein, Professor of English; Vice Provost, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Logic Seminar

The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view
Dana Bartosova, Professor, Mathematics, University of San Paulo,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Swim pressure of active matter
Sho Takatori, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

Baxter B125
Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Arms 151 (Buwalda Room)
Mineralogy at Gale Crater Mars
David Vaniman, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Gravity and Entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman, Director, Dawn Project Mission, Jet Proplusion Laboratory,
Friday, December 5th, 2014
12:00am – 12/6 12:00am
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(Fencing) NAC Tournament

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day of Classes for Fall Term

8:00am – 4:30pm
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Standard First-Aid/CPR Training

Winnett Lounge
10:30am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Metallaboratrane Facilitated E-H Bond Activation and Hydrogenation Catalysis
Henry Fong, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters Group, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
TBA
Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

Baxter B125
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Annenberg 213
The hidden subgraph problem
Andrea Montanari, Stanford,
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469
Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks
Masahito Yamazaki, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370
The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen
Elizabeth Lovegrove, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Stress state effects in yield and flow responses of nanocrystalline metals
David L. McDowell, Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing; Regents' Professor Mechanics of Materials; Executive Director, Institute for Materials, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Decouplings and applications
Ciprian Demeter, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups
Mark Hagen, RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Protection of Photoanodes for Water-Splitting in Harsh Environments
Michael Lichterman, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow
Shauna Kravec, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, San Diego,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse)
David Levermore, Professor, Mathematics, University of Maryland,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman, Director, Dawn Project Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm – 7:30pm
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German Film

Baxter Lecture Hall
Some One Like Me (2012)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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MOVED TO WEDNESDAY - TACIT: Caltech Players Student Director Showcase

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Saturday, December 6th, 2014
8:00am – 12/9 5:00pm
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Study Period, Fall Term

1:00pm – 4:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Rodriuguez Quinceanera Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachoyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm – 6:00pm
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(Women's Basketball) Lewis & Clark vs. Caltech

3:00pm – 9:00pm
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Raw Science Film Festival

Beckman Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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MOVED TO WEDNESDAY: TACIT: Caltech Players Student Director Showcase

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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T Sisters

Beckman Institute Auditorium
  • Public Event
Sunday, December 7th, 2014
10:00am – 12:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Agram Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm – 3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wilson - Luna Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm – 4:30pm
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MOVED TO WEDNESDAY: TACIT: Caltech Players Student Director Showcase

Ramo Auditorium
  • Public Event
Monday, December 8th, 2014
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Course Ombuds End-of-Quarter Meetup

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Faculty Board Meeting

Caltech Hall Board Room
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled

Annenberg 105
Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Development and Evolution of the Animal Face: From Principles to Mechanisms
Arkhat Abzhanov, Associate Professor, Prof, Biochemistry/Microbiology and Biology Dept. , Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Downs 107
Searches for long-lived particles
Abi Soffer, SLAC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar

Baxter B125
Fooled By Randomness? Financial Decision-Making Under Model Uncertainty
Elise Payzan-LeNestour, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Australia Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
7:30pm – 10:30pm
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(Women's Basketball) Caltech at Claremont-M-S

Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Keith Spalding B117
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture

Stacks in Representation Theory (What is a continuous representation of an algebraic group?)
Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Keith Spalding B117
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Caltech Library Workshop: "Crystallography Resources"

Sherman Fairchild Library 328 (Multimedia Conference Room)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium

Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, Univ. of Toronto,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Monoallelic Regulation and Epigenetic Dynamics during X-chromosome Inactivation
Edith Heard, Professor, Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institute Curie,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Prospects for gravitational-wave background detection with Advanced LIGO/Virgo
Eric Thrane, Monash University,
8:00pm – 9:30pm
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Nima Arkani-Hamed: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century

Beckman Auditorium
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
8:00am – 12/12 5:00pm
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Final Examinations